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I would like to create a automatic program in c# that basically capture some data from ms sql server e.g. (select firstname from customertable where today=@today) and then
populate the data into pdf (blank pdf with some textbox) and save into like
customerId.pdf so we have 10 or 100 pdfs sitting on the particular folder like c:\pdf\

In this case, do you know any automatic or out of box software we can use? We would like to generate daily at 11:00 pm (PST) for example

thanks

Here is a method of generating it through Crystal

http://www.emoreau.com/Entries/Articles/2006/09/Feeding-Crystal-Reports-from-your-application.aspx

http://www.emoreau.com/Entries/Articles/2006/10/Crystal-Reports--Part-II.aspx

All you need to do is follow the instructions and then use the Windows scheduling capability to schedule the application

You can also build a report and use a third-party scheduling tool
http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html#desktopsched

mlmcc

If you export the query as XML you can use XSL-FO to convert to PDF

Here is some info

http://mentaljetsam.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/c-sql-server-result-in-xml/

http://www.w3schools.com/xslfo/default.asp

Michael

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anymore solutions? That xml one seems hard to me ....:-(

Did you try the solution I suggested?

The entire code is available

mlmcc

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